Scottlfa | # 821 | 2010-12-06, 06:13 | Report

Love the app myself, though I don't have as huge a connection as some.

peter@instinctiv.com | # 822 | 2010-12-06, 17:04 | Report

Last week we spoke with Nokia. We were actively discouraged from developing for Maemo any further. There are lots of things we love about Maemo, including an awesome user community so we're disappointed to see it EOL'd . It's frustrating to have put so much effort into an app only to see the platform it's on be terminated . Whether we reappear on MeeGo -- the successor to Maemo -- depends in part on Nokia. In the mean time, our conversation with Nokia has led us to deprioritize the update we were working on, though no final decision has been made yet as to whether or not it'll ship. I'll keep you posted.

adhrie | # 823 | 2010-12-06, 17:13 | Report

damn those nokia people!

just when some people are doing good things for maemo, and they just have to interfere...

@peter : please keep developing instinctive for maemo, we will wait patiently for your final release

CepiPerez | # 824 | 2010-12-06, 17:18 | Report

Forget MeeGo, I'll never buy a Nokia device again.
My next device will be an Android for sure. Although it's not a real Linux OS, it has a lot of games and apps.
Please keep working on this excellent player, or please release the source for us to finish it

fms | # 825 | 2010-12-06, 17:36 | Report

Please, at least release what you have developed so far. It would be shame to lose all that stuff. Development-wise though, you will most likely be ok as long as you are doing it with Qt: the same player should work on either Maemo5 or Meego.

fms | # 826 | 2010-12-06, 17:37 | Report

Coming from you, it is really discouraging =(

CepiPerez | # 827 | 2010-12-06, 17:41 | Report

Don't worry, I'll keep trying to make some apps for Maemo.
I won't sell my device (cause I'll loose a lot of money if I do it)
But update to the next nokia device? Never!

Chrome | # 828 | 2010-12-06, 18:21 | Report

What a huge letdown, I've been anxiously waiting for the final release especially the new UI you showed lately and the promise for seamless playback. I'd pay for that no doubt.

Now December 13th is only a week ahead, and we get this sudden sad news.

lemmyslender | # 829 | 2010-12-06, 18:41 | Report

I posted over in the ask the council thread, to see if perhaps this is worth looking into.

I'd hope that there is a mis-understanding here, and not Nokia intentionally undercutting commercial development on the N900/Maemo OS.

peter@instinctiv.com | # 830 | 2010-12-06, 18:42 | Report

We haven't made a final decision about how to wrap up development -- one last update is still a possibility. I can't share all the details of our conversation with Nokia but suffice to say Nokia convinced us to abandon this project.

To date, we've had about 60,000 downloads on Maemo. There aren't a lot of N900s out there so that's actually a pretty big chunk of the market. We're not far from a 1.0 where we can start charging but the numbers just don't make sense. If you assume the industry standard rate where 2% of our downloads will convert to paying customers and we charge $4.99 for the app, we stand to make about $6000 or in other words a fraction of what our devs costs have been. At best, $6000 will cover the remaining dev costs.

When we started developing for Maemo we were lead to believe that Maemo was going to be a big focus for Nokia going forward. Given what we've all been hearing about MeeGo that statement is still probably true. However, the timeframes are definitely not what we were expecting. Until MeeGo ships there just isn't a market to develop for here

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